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House approves concurrent resolution to call joint session for governor's State of the State address
Summary
The House passed HCR 31, a concurrent resolution to call a joint session for Gov. Tate Reeves' State of the State address; members approved the measure by voice/roll call and released it for immediate effect.
The Mississippi House of Representatives on the floor adopted HCR 31, a concurrent resolution to call a joint session for Governor Tate Reeves’ State of the State address.
The resolution was presented by a representative from the committee on rules and explained on the floor as a formal request to set the governor’s address in a joint session. Representative Newman, speaking as the member recognized from Rankin County, described the measure as “a concurrent resolution for the state of the state address of Governor Tate Reeves.”
Members voted on the resolution following the floor explanation. The clerk opened and closed the voting machine; the presiding officer announced the resolution passed and approved for immediate release. The transcript records the presiding officer saying, “Close the machine, madam clerk. About over a 117, the 8, 0 days, the resolution passes.” Because the roll-call counts in the record are not stated in standard tally form, the exact yes/no counts are not specified in the official floor explanation recorded in the transcript.
The House also granted unanimous consent to release the resolution immediately after passage. No substantive debate on the resolution’s content was recorded on the floor; the action was procedural, placing the governor’s address before a joint session of the legislature.
The resolution now moves forward as a legislative scheduling action; the House did not include further floor directions or amendments related to the substance of the governor’s address.
